Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.